唐から天てん竺じく

noun

China and India; faraway lands

Archaic or literary term referring to distant foreign lands, especially China and India. The second gloss 'far away' reflects a figurative extension, but the primary meaning is the two countries as symbols of remote places.

• 昔むかしの人ひとは、唐から天てん竺じくまで旅たびをするのは命いのちがけだった。

  In the old days, traveling to China and India was a life-risking endeavor.

• 「唐から天てん竺じく」という言こと葉ばは、遠とおい異い国こくを表あらわす古ふるい表ひょう現げんだ。

  The word 唐天竺 is an old expression for distant foreign lands.